Hydra Pro 3.0
Hydra Pro 3.0 | Mac Os X | 19.6 MB
Hydra Pro (was Hydra + Aperture Plug-In) provides human eye-like perception to your photographs by allowing you to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from a series of regular photographs (up to 7), either from DSLRs or traditional point-and-shoot cameras. This is because a single photograph cannot represent the full gamut of light due to the physical limitations in the sensor.
System Requirements
Hardware
Mac with 64-bit Intel Processor
Not Supported: Intel GMA and ATI X1600 Graphic Cards
Operating System
Mac OS X 10.7.1 Lion or later
64-bit Architectures only
Memory
Minimum: 256 MB of VRAM (GPU)
Recommended: 512 MB of VRAM (GPU)
Technical Specifications: http://www.creaceed.com/hydra/specifications.html
Version 3.0:
Completely new user interface
Additional features available in the Express version (image processing features, plug-ins…)
Localized in English, French and German
Better interactive visualization:
Full resolution image, fast display
Interactive adjustments
Overview/manipulation of displayed image area within the whole image
Mouse scrolling and zoom in/out
Optional flashing low/highlights alerts
Better fullscreen support
Improved display of photo information
Image processing:
2 modes of operation: Photo Preparation, and Photo Development
Better camera response function estimates
Automatic or zone-based ghost removal (due to moving objects in different exposures)
Image alignment:
Much improved automatic alignment, even for farther apart exposures
Interactive point placement, with increased contrast display for easier manual matching
Subpixel point matching with subpixel user input
Reset button for individual alignment points
Better support for low contrast/less textured images
Tone mapping:
Entirely rewritten tonemapper
Full 32-bit floating point pipeline (per color component)
32-bit EV histogram and 8-bit tone-mapped histogram
Realtime adjustments on full resolution image
Reset of any slider by double-clicking it
Better central exposure determination
Better quality & user control
New controls - adjustable per scope: Overall exposure adjustment, shadows & highlights enhancement, details enhancement, hue, saturation, brightness, contrast
12 presets available
User presets can be stored per document (snapshots)
Scope-based adjustments to target only bright or dark areas, red, green, or blue tones
Probe-based adjustments (Pro version only)
Probes are used to select areas based on distance/color/brightness tolerance (Pro version only)
Interactive probe placement (Pro version only)
Post-processing:
Crop
Glow
Vignetting
White frame
Workflow - Batch processing (Pro version only):
Drop files and folders, Hydra groups them as exposure sets
Photo sets can be modified by user (add/remove photo, split set)
Photo sets can be given different processing options (tone mapping preset, automatic alignment, ghost removal…)
Can create final images and/or Hydra documents for later manual editing
Display of batch processing progress
Export:
Improved export to iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom
Export to Flickr
Export to Twitter
Export to Facebook
Export to Mail
Better EXIF information handling
Copyright information added to EXIF data
Optimized for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion:
Fullscreen Mode
Autosaving and Versioning
Automatic Termination and Restart
Improved Aperture plug-in
Improved Lightroom plug-in